The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), last week, confiscated large quantities of adulterated palm oil from 10 major markets in Accra and Tema.

The products, which were being sold at the Mallam Atta, Dome, Dansoman, Agbogbloshie and Kaneshie markets, all in Accra, were said to have been adulterated with Sudan IV, an industrial dye used in the colouration of plastics and other synthetic products.

Large quantities of the oil were also seized at the Madina, Makola No 2, Tema Community One and Ashaiman markets.

However, several of the palm oil dealers have denied the reports. Several of them told Pulse.com.gh, the reports from the FDA are baseless.

Meanwhile, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (known as the IARC), on Monday, announced in the journal Lancet Oncologythat processed meats, those transformed by salting, curing, or fermentation, fall into the same category as tobacco smoke, meaning "there is convincing evidence that the agent causes cancer."

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